Is possible without chain whip, just harder. I've used a rag wrapped around the cassette a couple of times. If you dont want to shell out for a chain whip they aren't hard to make. A bit of flat bar, a drill, some chain and a chain breaker. Copy the design from a pic on the net. Mine is home made a works fine, but would be nicer with an 'ergonomic' grip, rather than a thin flat piece of steel.

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Then you can change cassette's, chains, cranks etc easily at home and keep your bike in good shape without forking out for a bike shop to do it. Yeah it's a cheap tool kit, and yeah the bike shops might not be happy that I'm not giving them business, but hey, I'm a tightass and I'm not going to throw money away for no reason

This is the same size as old style headset spanners which you might have. It is a bit bigger than the standard 12" shifter can handle from memory.

Cheers,

Cameron

Almost. A 12" shifter will open to 35mm, which is fine for a 1" threaded headset, which has 32mm nuts (but you still need a headset spanner for the lower one). 1 1/8" threaded headsets have 36mm nuts, which obviously the shifter won't quite open enough for.

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